The atmosphere isn't too bad, and it's the first of... three? time travel episodes. The use of black-and-white photography gives the episode a certainly visual feel. And Tom McCamus is always good.
But the episode feels awfully understuffed. Part of is that there's a lot of padding. Frank runs in slow motion. A lot. First from the townspeople, and then just through the warehouse chasing after Micki. There are also a lot of shots of Micki smiling, enraptured, waiting for Frank to come to her. We never see Ryan being so enraptured by the power of luv.
Kevin Bundy is okay as Abraham. And he and Susanna Hoffman do a lot with a little, as the doomed couple. But the episode is crammed full of stuff, and not a lot of it makes sense. How did the vampire and the cousins just happen to get transported to the 19th century at just the right time to meet Abraham?
Is Frank a good guy cursed to be a vampire? He bemoans turning into a living corpse when he takes off the corpse, and there's a general sense that he's just some normal guy that got screwed because he went to the wrong house and put on the wrong cape. We never find out enough about him to know, and Frank sure seems to embrace the night life the rest of the time.
Ditto for Marie. Who seems to be a hubby-looking MILF that falls for Frank and then gets killed a few minutes later. Maybe she's just into the undead. Who knows?
Like Jack says at the end, the whole thing seems like a waste. Ryan and Micki travel back a hundred years. But at the end, as Ryan says, all he saw was a flat, a basement, and a couple of dark streets. Yes, it's a low-budget show. But sheesh, it feels like the cousins should have got a t-shirt saying, "I traveled through time, and all I got was this t-shirt!" Nothing is made of the whole time-travel trope, except for Jack commenting on it at the end.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
But the episode feels awfully understuffed. Part of is that there's a lot of padding. Frank runs in slow motion. A lot. First from the townspeople, and then just through the warehouse chasing after Micki. There are also a lot of shots of Micki smiling, enraptured, waiting for Frank to come to her. We never see Ryan being so enraptured by the power of luv.
Kevin Bundy is okay as Abraham. And he and Susanna Hoffman do a lot with a little, as the doomed couple. But the episode is crammed full of stuff, and not a lot of it makes sense. How did the vampire and the cousins just happen to get transported to the 19th century at just the right time to meet Abraham?
Is Frank a good guy cursed to be a vampire? He bemoans turning into a living corpse when he takes off the corpse, and there's a general sense that he's just some normal guy that got screwed because he went to the wrong house and put on the wrong cape. We never find out enough about him to know, and Frank sure seems to embrace the night life the rest of the time.
Ditto for Marie. Who seems to be a hubby-looking MILF that falls for Frank and then gets killed a few minutes later. Maybe she's just into the undead. Who knows?
Like Jack says at the end, the whole thing seems like a waste. Ryan and Micki travel back a hundred years. But at the end, as Ryan says, all he saw was a flat, a basement, and a couple of dark streets. Yes, it's a low-budget show. But sheesh, it feels like the cousins should have got a t-shirt saying, "I traveled through time, and all I got was this t-shirt!" Nothing is made of the whole time-travel trope, except for Jack commenting on it at the end.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?